Summary
Jerome Herath is a Principal AI Engineer with nine years of experience applying machine learning and deep learning to cybersecurity, currently building AI-powered incident response at Spacewalk AI. He holds a PhD from Binghamton University where his dissertation and projects advanced explainable and adversarial ML for malware classification, real-time anomaly detection, and tamper-proof scientific workflows. At Obsidian Security he helped deliver a governed multi-agent AI assistant and end-to-end evaluation and tracing systems that accelerate SaaS threat investigations and analyst workflows. Jerome’s background spans time-series forecasting, graph neural networks, Markovian models and blockchain-backed data integrity, reflecting a rare mix of research depth and production-focused engineering. He combines hands-on model building with security-first product thinking and a track record of turning novel research (e.g., CFGExplainer, RAMP, SciBlock) into operational tooling.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Ordinary Level Advanced Level Assistant Head Prefect, Ordinary Level Advanced Level Assistant Head Prefect at St. Josephs College, Colombo 10, Sri Lanka
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Binghamton University
Bachelor of Science - BS Computational Physics, Bachelor of Science - BS Computational Physics at University of Colombo
Professional Postgraduate Diploma in Marketing Marketing, Professional Postgraduate Diploma in Marketing Marketing at CIM | The Chartered Institute of Marketing
Sinhalese, English